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Re: Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)?


From: Andy Wingo
Subject: Re: Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:56:34 +0100
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On Wed 14 Dec 2011 18:26, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>> It is my opinion -- and I could be wrong here, either by
>> misunderstanding (again!) the issues, or for whatever reason -- that
>> closures are the best solution to the #{#} problem.
>
> I would love to use closures for this, but they simply are not powerful
> enough to implement `local-eval' properly.

Agreed, but I think at this point that it's fair to say while that
lilypond's use case would be more convenient with local-eval, lambda is
certainly powerful enough.

I'll send a mail tomorrow specifically about local-eval.

Andy
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